Tending Iowa's Land

In the last 200 years, Iowas prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowas land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowas premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the states human and wild residents.